Oh, this pisses me off..
Sep. 24th, 2002 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
One of the more annoying people on the Traveller Mailing List has begun editing quotes to meet his standards. Not just fixing spelling and punctuation errors, which is annoying enough, but wholesale changing of things like sentence structure and units of measurement.
Everyone has asked him, in increasingly strident tones, to please stop this, and he simply expresses amazement that anyone would be bothered by his editing, and that he has every "right" to change things and then represent it as a quote.
I am reaching the point of plonking the guy. He has pissed me off before, and is a right-wing moron whose views are strident to the point of solipsism. He's always right, and what he likes is of course what is best for all of us. But what gets me is that in the face of no support at all, he continues to contend that he is right.
Everyone has asked him, in increasingly strident tones, to please stop this, and he simply expresses amazement that anyone would be bothered by his editing, and that he has every "right" to change things and then represent it as a quote.
I am reaching the point of plonking the guy. He has pissed me off before, and is a right-wing moron whose views are strident to the point of solipsism. He's always right, and what he likes is of course what is best for all of us. But what gets me is that in the face of no support at all, he continues to contend that he is right.
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Date: 24 Sep 2002 09:42 (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Sep 2002 10:31 (UTC)<AOL>me too<AOL>. I've even changed from digest to single-message, for the very first time, in preparation for possibly having to take that step.
God save us from contrarians who mistake that quality for free-thinking individualism.
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Date: 24 Sep 2002 10:56 (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Sep 2002 15:55 (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Sep 2002 17:29 (UTC)Not killed, hm? Oh, well.. there's always the sequel.
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Date: 24 Sep 2002 10:48 (UTC)Something completing different from what he said.
</his quote>
See what he does then.
Metric to Imperial???? -- Didn't we loose a space probe due to that?
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Date: 24 Sep 2002 10:53 (UTC)Or something to that effect. Me, I'd just have plonked the guy the first time he did that and claimed he didn't see what was wrong with it. I have no tolerance for several things, plagarism being one, hypocrisy another, and deliberate quote fraud another.
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Date: 24 Sep 2002 12:36 (UTC)Of course, the horribly annoying troublemakers all think they are on the short side of those odds, while in point of fact 99.99999% of them are merely jerks.
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Date: 24 Sep 2002 13:57 (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Sep 2002 17:21 (UTC)His other arguments regarding grammar, style etc. seem to confirm this mindset: "This is the way I learned it years ago, when I was a lad, and since no one has proved to me that these newfangled ways are better, I will insist that everyone Should be doing it the Correct way."
[FYI, the above is not a quote.]
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Date: 25 Sep 2002 05:55 (UTC)Ah. "I do it this way, so that must be the correct way because if it wasn't correct, I wouldn't be doing it." A most faulty beginning for anything, indeed.
Plonk him. Ignore him, he's not going to change.